PHIL 375 Lecture Notes - Edmund Husserl, Communication, Jean-Paul Sartre
22 Dec 2012
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Attempts to rehabilitate the notion of transcendence, which had been curtailed by. There is no content, no sensation that corresponds to them. They are not ideas of which we can have certain knowledge, which is the only theoretical knowledge, which is what he is interested in. Jaspers is kantian, and draws on him, arguing that there are limits to what theoretical reason can attain. However, instead of saying transcendent ideas are impossible, jaspers also says that this is where existence starts (where science and theoretical reasoning leaves off). Existence comes into being where theoretical reasoning leaves off. Because existence must confront the antimonies of existence and theoretical reasoning, it overcomes them. This is a higher level, more authentic level of consciousness. This is where we discover existence is transcended. Jaspers writes that his philosophy should elaborate or carry out this transcendence in all philosophical world orientations.
